Ubuntu :: How To Boot Without Keyboard
Nov 1, 2010
I have searched this forum before posting & can only see threads about problems of keyboards not being seen by Ubuntu.
My problem is different. I have a headless server running 9.10. it has no GUI & is CLI only. The annoying thing is that I cant boot it without a keyboard. I have seen other sites threads saying turn of 'apm' in BIOS? But I dont know if that will affect other things.
I use SSH only to manage this box either from home/work so again keyboard is not needed in any capacity.
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Jun 27, 2011
Computer: Toshiba Satellite Pro L510 laptop, 10.10.This has always happened but I have gotten around it by time-out and putting my menu.list in order. When I first boot the machine (switch on for the day from computer being off) I get to the grub options to select a kernel and I have no keyboard. No up/down arrows so have to go with the kernel on top of the list (not always desirable).
When I get to the log-in screen if I hit restart and go back to the grub screen I have a keyboard and can select any kernel. If I login to the kernel I have full keyboard, no problem. If I then restart, I have keyboard at the grub list.
Nutshell: It is only when starting the computer fresh that the keyboard is dead at grub menu (and then only). Any time after that, once the computer has been switched on, if I restart I have keyboard at grub menu and can select different kernels. (Of course, if I switch the computer off and back on again, no keyboard ...)
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Aug 16, 2010
This is an Arch / Win7 dual boot. I've got a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The mouse is persistent across boots but the keyboard needs to be rejoined every time.
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Nov 3, 2010
10.10 on a brand new Toshiba Satellite Pro L510. All's gone pretty well but there seems to be one strange thing left to tweak. When I boot from the computer being off, I get to the menu to select and OS (I have Win7 on here also), but the keyboard is not recognised. I can't select anything. My only option is to control/alt/del and here's the kicker: On restart the keyboard is recognised no problems and away I go. I was wondering about adding a keyboard entry of some description to /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
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Feb 28, 2010
I have a second machine which I can access via "Remote Desktop" using wired connections to my router. I want to boot up this machine without a keyboard/Mouse/Monitor connected, (ie viewing directly from the main pc) Can this be done? At present I have to connect a keyboard, Boot up, then disconnect the keyboard. (I only have 1 keyboard)
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Feb 26, 2010
When I start up my computer I get an error message in the BIOS of keyboard failure. I have a dual boot so this is a problem when I want to start windows. I had a recent power outage and the computer got shut off. Then the keyboard started working for two boots. After that the error returned.
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Jul 8, 2010
When I installed Ubuntu on my laptop I selected English US (dead keys) as my keyboard layout, but a couple of days ago I decided to change it to English US (dead keys ALTGR) so I just went to the keyboard settings and added the layout, then deleted the old one "English US (dead keys)", logged out and selected the new one "English US (dead keys ALTGR)", logged back in and then restarted, and now I can't boot into Ubuntu, all I get is Grub but when I enter to Ubuntu I get a black screen and the Caps Lock light blinking.
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Nov 10, 2010
Machine: 2008 Mac ProKeyboard: Aluminum/wired/numeric keypad/US layoutKernel: 2.6.35-22-generic x64 (maverick)Bootloader: GRUB 1.99 BetaI have been trying to EFI boot Ubuntu since June - without success. My goal, for now, is to boot into an initramfs environment succesfully. I'm booting with these grub commands:
insmod efi_uga
linux (hd1,gpt1)/ubuntu/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic video=efifb noefi
initrd (hd1,gpt1)/ubuntu/initramfs-2.6.35-22-generic
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Jan 6, 2011
I just replaced my RAM, and searched for the best way to do a memory test in Ubuntu. I ran across this page:
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...which says:
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Turn On or Restart the system Hold down Shift to bring up the GRUB menu. Use the arrow keys to move to the entry labeled Ubuntu, memtest86+ Press Enter. The test will run automatically, and continue until you end it by pressing the Escape key
Allow the test to run for at least one full pass
So I did exactly that. The GRUB menu appeared, but I had no keyboard control, and thus couldn't select anything. I've tried rebooting several times with different keyboards, and they all show 3 green lights at the very beginning of boot, but become unavailable by the time GRUB appears.
So I booted to a Live CD and the keyboard worked just fine inside that session. But it's still gone during boot. When I'm booting without a CD in the drive (booting to the internal HD as usual), it goes straight to the GRUB list, with no keyboard control, and I'm stuck indefinitely.
how to either bypass this stuck GRUB screen, or somehow restore normal keyboard functionality during early boot?
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Jul 22, 2011
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 2 days go using wubi. Until today everything worked fine, but now whenever I try to use my keyboard to select the OS option in the boot menu, it doesn't work(arrow keys, enter button nothing works). After 10 seconds the default selection (windows 7) starts up. When windows boots up, the keyboard starts working again.
I googled for the it and found that users who had USB keyboards had this problem, but I'm using a PS/2 keyboard. Also, for 2 days everything went fine but after that it suddenly started happening.
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Dec 1, 2010
I'm having intermittent problems booting with my USB keyboard. Originally the problem was at the screen for entering my passphrase to unlock my LUKS volumes. The BIOS would recognize both USB keyboard and mouse, the BIOS passed off to GRUB with no problem and GRUB would take over the boot process. In the troubleshooting process I had changed grub.conf to show the menu with a 15 second display. ASUS BIOS also has a boot OS delay to allow access to ASUS Extra or hit ESC to skip the delay and then the GRUB menu comes up and I am able to edit the lines of boot commands and then enter to boot. I'll loose the keyboard when it gets to the point of entering the Passphrase.
I have changed the following BIOS settings:
USB Legacy: enabled (default Auto)
APCI 2.0 Support: Disabled (default Enabled)
My hardware is:
MoBo: ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 BIOS ver: 1601
RAM: A-Data 4GB DDR3 (2x2GB sticks)
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 965
PSU: OCZ Technology ModXstream-Pro 600W
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It had been working fine for about 2 or 3 days and then today it took a half hour to boot up. I had even tried an old PS/2 keyboard and got the same results. In the past that keyboard would boot and then I was able to shutdown change back to my USB keyboard and boot up fine. I'm wondering if I'm right in thinking that it's a defective MoBo. If so and I'm able to return it to the store (MicroCenter in Duluth, GA) should I just get the same as a replacement or go with another MoBo from ASUS, or go with another MoBo by another mfg? If I should go with the 3rd option anyone have any recommendations? I have had Gigabyte in the past but they only seem to last about 18 months and had issues with the 2 DVD drives (closing on their own after I opened them, that stopped after switching to ASUS)
I had also installed F14 when I still had the last Gigabyte MoBo which sort of blew up taking down the CPU and PSU about a week later. I'm now on the first week with the ASUS MoBo.
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Apr 26, 2010
this is my very first post so very sorry if this sounded stupid for you, but I could REALLY use some help or even a nice step in the right direction. My USB Keyboard does not boot with any distro i've tried so far. I've tried Libranet, Mandrake, and Redat so far. They all do the same thing. They're all completely dead in the water and I believe its because they're all looking for a PS/2 Keyboard, but I only have a USB Keyboard. The error basically is the same throughout all of my attempts here it is: Keyboard Timeout - AT Keyboard not present? Hope my first problem has a decent resolution cuz i'm really interested in getting an FTP and HTTP web server up and running!
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Aug 18, 2010
I have been battling this issues for about a year now. Kind of got tired of dealing with it, but inevitably I go away for vacation or something and I lose power at the fort then the system will not come back up on its own.
Every time (100%) I power my system on with the single USB cable connected to it, my system hangs. It did it on 8.x, 9.x and all versions of 10.x. I have asked the questions before, but never get anywhere with it. Finally I have found this Forum and figured out how to ask questions Weird, I know
Anyway.
The system goes through the BIOS check and gets to the GRUB loader. If I do nothing, it hangs with a black screen just after it says that it is loading the kernel.
If I change the kernel commands to include the noacpi=apic or most other common fixes for what I have been told, USB, I get to the same place seemingly.
In reading through the forums and a little testing, I find that if I remove the splash and the quiet commands (obviously snicker), I am able to see where it is really stopping, but does not make sense to me.
The last informational text that appears to be processed is one of
Registered Protocol Family 1
There is nothing in the SYSLOG, MESSAGES or DMESG at all for this boot. I would assume that the system is not to a point where we can log this data
This is an AMD Phenom II x4 running 10.04 64bit Ubuntu. The USB connected device is an Avocent KVM 4 port with Audio and USB.
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Apr 29, 2011
I have been working on this problem for a year now. It is becoming critical because I need to upgrade Linux. I really want Ubuntu.
Keyboard works fine at power on. I can edit BIOS options. I put in the CD or DVD, it starts fine. Keyboard works for selecting boot options. Once the installation begins however, no more keyboard...
This is true across every version and distribution of Linux I have come across- I have dozens of liveCDs -EXCEPT Linux Mint 8.
Laptop = Acer 5517
Running Linux Mint 8 & Windows 7
I have no USB Legacy Emulation BIOS option
I've tried this: [url]
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Dec 24, 2009
I have Fedora 12 and I'm using it as a server and there's no keyboard. Everything works fine, except that I can't reboot. I can see the system coming up, but at the end it seems to stop / hang. Maybe something todo with gdm, I don't know!
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Jan 4, 2010
I installed Ubuntu using Wubi, and the boot loader does not detect my keyboard. Does the windows boot loader only support PS2 keyboards? Would there be a workaround... like install DOS drivers for it? I have a logitech s520 keyboard.
When in Windows, I can select what OS to use, but is there a way I can select which OS to use while booted into Ubuntu? Is there a program that will let me modify the windows boot loader from within Ubuntu?
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Feb 26, 2010
I have installed Linux mint and it failed on grub, if I press something grub crash, tired of that I install Ubuntu but my surprise was the same problem on grub, I was thinking if grub2 was the problem, so I tried grub legacy and was the same x_x
I remember use a old version of ubuntu with lilo (or was opensuse) but it works! but neither last ubunt nor mint with grub
Grub loader: select OS If I press ANY key it crash, if I wait the 9 seconds it enter to default OS (first option)
Note: It is neither PS2 nor USB keyboard, it's a laptop keyboard, a Compaq presario 2100
Note 2: I don't speak english very well ^_^
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May 21, 2010
I setup 10.04 on an older Athlon XP 3000+ ASUS A7N8X board with a Radeon RV250 video card. It works fine and dual boots with XP on the LCD monitor I have. I took it to my mom's an connected to a iiyama Vision Master 450 CRT. When I boot, I get the grub menu, and if I pick Windows XP, it boots fine. If I pick Ubuntu, the screen goes blank, as small underline cursor appears at the top left, and then the monitor goes into sleep mode and the keyboard is no longer responsive.
I cannot seem to gain access. I cannot hit CTl-ALT-F2 (or ALT-F2) to get to text login (screen is sleeping and no keyboard control). I tried Live CD, it shows a graphic at the bottom of the screen and then goes blank as well! Seem like something with monitor resolution, but I cannot seem to figure out how to force it to work. I can't seem to figure out how to get into command line mode on boot either.
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Dec 1, 2008
I recently started experimenting with Ubuntu 8.10 and I've spent the last week mostly getting the HDD partitions and desktop to my liking so I have not installed many actual programs yet. As of this last Saturday ( 11-29-2008 ) my Keyboard (PS/2 connection) worked fine whether booted into Ubuntu or XP and worked in grub as well. I discovered on Sunday the 30th that when booted into XP my keyboard no longer worked(but my USB mouse works). The keyboard still works fine in Grub and in Ubuntu but no amount of keypressing works when booted into XP. My device manager indicates the driver has been corrupted or something (Code 39 error) and indicates the driver files are i8042prt.sys and kbdclass.sys.
Here's a list of the things I've tried so far:Tried swapping in a USB keyboard; I've tried updating the drivers in Device Manager; Tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers in Device Manager; I tried the "uninstall driver, shutdown, unplug keyboard, reboot, shutdown, plug keyboard back in and reboot" routine; deleting those two files and letting them be rebuilt at boot; using the recovery console to copy them from the XP install CD to the System32/Drivers folder and as a last resort I tried a repair install only to find when asked to enter the CoA code the keyboard still did not work.
I obviously borked something on the Ubuntu side that's causing a conflicting with those drivers on the XP side but I'm at a loss as to what that might be. The only thing I can remember installing since the last time the keyboard worked was maybe Wine, but for sure I did a test install of my Baldur's Gate+ToSC disc and I attempted to install Daemon Tools Lite too. I've since uninstalled those two programs and even Wine itself without results. The only other thing I can think of is that I've been messing around with the /fstab file a lot trying to get all my drives/partitions to mount up at boot like I want but I don't know how that would impact the keyboard drivers.
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Jul 13, 2010
I have console only on my machine and I have two problems with it:
1) I can't find how to enable programmer dvorak keyboard layout.
2) All the console settings don't stay after reboot, I have to do dpkg-reconfigure console-setup again. But after I do that I loose russian layout that I normally can switch to with Alt+Shift.
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Aug 23, 2009
Back during the early days of live usb drives (F9) before persistent overlays were not ready for prime time, I created an approach to do persistence by injecting a special rc.local file into my custom live usb spin. This script mounts a file containing an encrypted ext3 filesystem using losetup which prompts for a password.
This scheme worked well for F9 and F10 but is now broken for F11 because the keyboard is not enabled at the time rc.local is executed. Obviously, all the work done to F11 for speeding up the boot time and moving the boot to the first console has broken my approach.
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Nov 12, 2009
i have a usb mouse and keyboard and am testing booting without rhgb quiet on the previous kernel version. however the keyboard is not working at this point, which i only noticed just now.
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Nov 23, 2010
Over the weekend my MoBo, MPU, & PSU decided to retire so I had to replace everything including memory. I originally had a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 MoBo with Athlon II x2 and Corsair 800MHz $GB RAM. I used my current USB keyboard and USB wireless Logitech trackball which the wireless had issues, but I don't use that now. Now I have an ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3, AMD Phenom II x4 and A_Data 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM. I still have the same USB keyboard which worked fine on the old MoBo and now have a wired USB mouse. I had installed F14 prior to the fried chips incident and all was working fine. With the new MoBo I have 2 issues as follows:
1. On boot both the USB keyboard and the USB mouse are detected by the BIOS, but when the screen comes up to enter my passphrase for my encrypted deviceshe keyboard is unresponsive. I have gotten it to work by hitting the "ESC" key steadily just before this screen pops up. The BIOS settings for USB seem to have only turning on Legacy USB devices option which seems to have no impact on this problem.2. When I shut down, the system does not power off and the display will show that the system is halted. All BIOS settings in regards to Power make reference to Sleep or Suspend modes, power mode after loss of AC power.can furnish the exact wording of all power related settings and USB per the manual
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Dec 30, 2010
I'm trying to get FC13 running on a Toshiba SG20 - no keyboard, no monitor. grub.conf and the entry KEYBOARDTYPE=pc and I think that's where it's hanging. Can I say KEYBOARDTYPE=none ? There is nothing, that I can find, even on the gnu-grub site as to options for KBT.
I can attach the drive to my desktop - has screen and keyboard - and the system boots fine. However when I boot on my desktop I get the blue screen with the FC13 logo - semi circle - looks like a top laying on it's side.
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Oct 12, 2010
I have tried several versions on my netbook and all fail to boot unless i hold down the enter (return) key on the keyboard then it will load slowly i have also tried meego which does the same thing but i want to use UNR 10:10 without having to sit holding the keyboard for 2 minutes.
Toshiba NB200
Windows 7 Installed too
UNR 10:10 (have tried 9:10, 10:04 and 10:10)
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Nov 3, 2010
Running Landmarq Intel Atom DC330 Desktop I have just attempted to upgrade my desktop machine from Kubuntu 10.04 to Kubuntu 10.10. I used KpackageKit to do the upgrade which proceeded smoothly until the install packages phase, which seemed to complete and then repeat. I don't know the detail of what happened as I was out of the room.
The repeat almost completed, but then I got a set of error messages, which basically told me that KpackageKit was unable to install the upgraded packages. I closed KpackageKit, and closed the machine and tried a reboot. This time, I got as far as the splash screen, but although the cursor flashes, I can't type anything in the password box. In addition, the mouse pointer won't move. Using a different wireless mouse works, but I still can't type in a password.
However, the command ctrl+alt+sysrq+RSEIUB works, so the machine is accepting some keyboard input. I also know from using a live disc that my home directory is intact. I would like to revert to my 10.04 installation, and re-try an upgrade to 10.11 afterwards.
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Jan 22, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I installed a new 4-core Lenovo PC and installed Squeeze on it - keeping it updated every day. When kdm or gnome display the login screen, my USB-connected keyboard and mouse don't react. When I then unplug and re-attach them into the same socket everything ist fine. Surely this can't be working as intended? I can however get into BIOS-Setup as usual during the initial boot-phase by pressing Crtl-S and F1. Things also are fine when selecting the debian version to run from the multi-boot screen.
I am enclosing the kern.log of the last boot below (don't know how to attach files!). In that I can see that on line 530 ist says New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c03e (address: 5; optical Logitech mouse) and then on line 542 New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c31c (address: 6; keyboard).
It seems to get "interesting again on line 632 etc. with the message usb 2-1.8: USB disconnect, address 6.
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2.754607] usb 2-1.5: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
2.855589] usb 2-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0a0c
2.855594] usb 2-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
2.855598] usb 2-1.5: Product: Logitech USB Headset
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Nov 11, 2010
I am running F14. I have usb keyboard and mouse, very cheap but working. There is slight problem with keyboard when I boot machine with keyboard no usb port is working, when I plug it in after system loads it is working fine.
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[0.111940] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[0.111986] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[0.112080] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[1.950117] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[1.950124] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[1.950131] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[1.950136] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 ehci_hcd
[1.950141] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.3
[1.951097] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
[1.951104] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 .....
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Jan 28, 2011
If I change the keyboard shortcut for Open a Terminal in System > Preferences it will not stay in there if i log-out or reboot. When i log back in the shortcut is set to disabled, and I have tried different key combos and they give the same result. I am using Fedora 14 btw and hopefully you guys know of a solution. I tried making a custom command also using the gnome-terminal command but the terminal launches with a different directory other than my home directory when using that method.
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Jun 19, 2011
Increasingly over time, i.e., days I experience that the keyboard (and mouse) is not recognized when booting.Now it's every time I boot. However, there is a fix. If I plug out, and immedeatly plug in again the keyboard connector everything is fine, except that keyboard short cuts not always work depending on application. In the mouse case the right mouse button doesn't respond either. Besides these effects the system, openSuSE 11.3, boots fine. It's a hazzle everytime to plug in and out again. I'm opting for another fix. Nothing suspicious in /var/log/messages. I've tried to see if there is a particular led light sequence on "num lock", "Caps lock", "Scroll lock" that I can get som info from, but I haven't been successful.Anyone got a suggestion to what might be the cause of this behavior?
Keyboard is kwd-205
Mouse is Microsoft wheel optical mouse
Base Board Information
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